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单词 minnesota
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Minnesotan.

Brit. /ˌmɪnᵻˈsəʊtə/, U.S. /ˌmɪnəˈsoʊdə/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Minnesota.
Etymology: < Minnesota, the name of a state in the north central United States.In senses 1 and 3 after the name of the University of Minnesota.
1. Minnesota shift n. American Football (now historical) an attacking manoeuvre used in college football, originally developed by the University of Minnesota team (see quot. 1971).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > American football > [noun] > actions or manoeuvres
rush1857
punt-out1861
goal-kicking1871
safety1879
safety touchdown1879
scrimmage1880
rushing1882
safety touch1884
touchback1884
forward pass1890
run1890
blocking1891
signal1891
fake1893
onside kick1895
tandem-play1895
pass play1896
spiral1896
shift1901
end run1902
straight-arm1903
quarterback sneak1904
runback1905
roughing1906
Minnesota shift1910
quarterbacking1910
snap-back1910
pickoff1912
punt return1914
screen forward pass1915
screen pass1920
power play1921
sneak1921
passback1922
snap1922
defence1923
reverse1924
carry1927
lateral1927
stiff-arm1927
zone1927
zone defence1927
submarine charge1928
squib1929
block1931
pass rushing1933
safetying1933
trap play1933
end-around1934
straight-arming1934
trap1935
mousetrap1936
buttonhook1938
blitzing1940
hand-off1940
pitchout1946
slant1947
strike1947
draw play1948
shovel pass1948
bootleg1949
option1950
red dog1950
red-dogging1951
rollout1951
submarine1952
sleeper pass1954
draw1956
bomb1960
swing pass1960
pass rush1962
blitz1963
spearing1964
onsides kick1965
takeaway1967
quarterback sack1968
smash-mouth1968
veer1968
turn-over1969
bump-and-run1970
scramble1971
sack1972
nose tackle1975
nickel1979
pressure1981
1910 Minneapolis Tribune 30 Oct. (Sport section) 1/5 The Minnesota offense with the shift plays and the fake forward passes proved confusing to the Chicago defense.]
1910 Evening Observer (Dunkirk, N.Y.) 19 Nov. 6/4 The dominant opinion is that Yale will use variations of the Minnesota shift which was used so effectively against Princeton.
1912 Collier's 23 Nov. 11/2 He hears people about him rattling away about ‘Minnesota shifts’, ‘secondary defense’, and so on.
1971 A. Danzig Oh, how they played Game 236 The principal feature of the Minnesota shift was tackles back, ends and guards wide. The tackles jumped into the line, set for an instant, and they would be gone. The tackles would go into the line at the last moment, on one side or the other, as the ends closed in to their positions.
1994 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 18 Sept. 15 c Williams introduced the forward pass and the ‘Minnesota shift’ and was named to the College Football Hall of Fame.
2. Minnesota Man n. Physical Anthropology a human skeleton from the late Pleistocene found in Minnesota in 1931.The skeleton was soon after identified as that of a young female.
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the world > people > protohuman > [noun]
anthropolite1778
Neanderthal man1861
caveman1862
man1863
prehistoric man1863
Pithecanthropus1873
Java man1895
Homo erectus1904
Heidelberg1909
Eoanthropus1912
dawn man1913
Neanderthaler1913
Piltdown man1913
Aurignacian1915
Neanderthalian1920
Rhodesian man1921
Boskopoid1926
Peking man1926
Sinanthropus1927
Piltdown1931
Predmostian1931
Minnesota Man1932
Neanderthaloid1934
Steinheim1935
Gigantopithecus1936
Africanthropus1938
Paranthropus1938
Piltdowner1941
Meganthropus1942
Telanthropus1949
Saldanha Man1953
pithecanthropine1955
Nutcracker Man1959
Homo habilis1964
iceman1972
1932 A. E. Jenks in Science 10 June 608/2 Complete scientific data will later be presented on the Pleistocene man—which, for purposes of identification, we name ‘the Minnesota Man’.
1952 T. K. Penniman Hundred Years Anthropol. (rev. ed.) 416 At least one of the claimants for antiquity actually belongs to the Late Pleistocene period, i.e., ‘Minnesota Man’ (actually a girl).
1976 N.Y. Times 19 Mar. 35/1Minnesota Man’ is now ‘Minnesota Woman’, by order of the State Legislature... Although the bones were named ‘Minnesota Man’, it was long known that they were the remains of a female.
3. Psychology. attributive. Designating any of various psychological procedures devised at the University of Minnesota; Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory n. a personality test made up of over 500 items, the responses to which measure the strengths of various personality traits in accordance with criteria calculated from groups of normal subjects, and subjects with clinically diagnosed psychiatric disorders (abbreviated MMPI).
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1946 Jrnl. Appl. Psychol. 30 517 The present paper presents preliminary data on the use of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) with respect to differential diagnosis, with secondary findings upon the subject of overall identification of ‘abnormals’ from people in general.
1956 Univ. Minnesota Med. Bull. 28 98 The Minnesota Test for Differential Diagnosis of Aphasia is now in its sixth revision.
1973 Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. 122 65 The tasks presented to the subjects consisted of Block Counting..and the Depression scale from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).
1993 Spy (N.Y.) Oct. 21/3 The Test..is based on the classic Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, introduced in 1940.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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